helping our kids thrive

Inside: To encourage your kids to be kind, download these free printables with 60 kindness questions you can use to talk with your kids about how to be kinder people. As my daughter got in the car this afternoon after school, I asked her to tell me three things about her school day. After telling […]

Inside: Teach your kids how to sew with this pumpkin sewing craft perfect for fall and autumn, Halloween and Thanksgiving. I pulled out my Halloween box of decorations and stuffed between my pumpkins and plastic bats I found an old craft project I did when I was a young kid. I had been taught how […]

Inside: Raising Kind Kids has to include raising our kids to be considerate and mindful of others. This has a list of ideas of how you can you teach your kids to be more considerate and mindful of others. Yesterday I was in a last minute IEP meeting for my daughter. It was a just […]

Inside: Parents have to know the true definition of bullying so when our kids are mistreated we have the correct information and know how we can respond and help them properly. My dear friend’s son came home from camp the other day and announced, “I was bullied today.” Now there’s a lot of ways his […]

Inside: Are your kids heading to a new school this fall? Here’s how to help your kids adjust to a new school quickly. My three kids were the new kids at school three times in three years. We moved from Los Angeles to Boston to Chicago and back to Los Angeles. Yikes. That’s a lot […]